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...welcome effort to contextualize Sept. 11, and what saves Extremely Loud from being a kind of ode to its earth-shattering enormity is his presentation of other tragedies as predecessors. In addition to stories about the American destruction of Dresden, there is a transcript of an interview with a Hiroshima survivor, which Oskar plays for a school project, also reporting on the scientific dimensions of the atom bomb...
Kenzo Tange, the face of 20th-century Japanese architecture, rebuilder of the city of Hiroshima after it was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, and one-time Harvard lecturer, died on March 22 of heart failure at his home in Tokyo...
...post-war re-entry onto the world stage-the man who, more than any other, defined the nation's architectural identity in the last half of the 20th century. The University of Tokyo-trained Tange rocketed to fame with his 1949 design for the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima's ground zero, the concrete museum, arched cenotaph and mammoth public square of which managed to be arresting without quite being beautiful, distinctive without quite being iconic. His later commissions embodied Japan's re-emergence as an increasingly confident economic power: the sweeping National Gymnasium Complex for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic...
DIED. KENZO TANGE, 91, Japan's most influential postwar architect, who led the rebuilding of Hiroshima with his peace-park design in 1949; in Tokyo. A winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he helped re-elevate his country to the world stage with his twin comma-shaped sports arenas for Tokyo's 1964 Olympics...
...sale of nuclear technology, but it seems you forgot to mention many other "merchants of menace" since the development of nuclear weapons in the 1940s. The title should be conferred on Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and President Harry Truman, who was responsible for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And don't forget the Americans who leaked nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, and the Israelis who developed their own nuclear weapons. The Americans, not Khan, should be at the top of that list. Aziz al Rehman Karachi A Sister's Sympathy It is interesting to note that in your...